Word: num
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estimate of the num-ber of passengers who ride each day on elevators in New York City. Elevator speeds vary from 700 ft. to 1,000 ft. per minute. There are 28,104 elevators in Manhattan. Chances are 218,000,000 to 1 that an elevator-passenger will be alive at the end of a trip. Buildings with most elevators are: Equitable, 59; New York Life, 38; New York Central and Graybar, 37 each. Tall Woolworth has only 30. Manhattan had 105 elevator accidents last year. Many of these involved not elevators but careless persons falling down the shafts...
...manufacturing ratio between a day's pay and a day's work. Last week Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., discussed piecework versus timework payment, said that ''modifications of the piece rate system" had been introduced in General Electric plants. Figures on num-ber of employes, total salaries and total sales showed that in 1928 General Electric Co. had paid an average of 73,526 employes $134,056,000 and had received orders for $348,848,512 of C. E. products. The average employe therefore was paid $1,823 a year (almost exactly...
...available in the University. There are two very good reasons for this seemingly strange fact. In the first place it has always been the belief of CRIMSON editors that difficult forms of activity are eminently worth while in themselves, and that a college like Harvard will always contain a num- ber of men of a sufficiently adventurous spirts and virgorous nature to respond to the call of the admittedly difficult. The CRIMSON does not attempt to conceal the nature of its competitions because it wants only those men who are willing to undertake the hardest possible form of endeavor. Then...
...authors of the plot and dialogue, although they refuse to make any definite revolutions about the product of their labor, intimate the scope of the show in their acknowledgement of indebtedness to "Ba num the Bible, and Professor Albert Pushrell Hart in the order named...
...incident broke the monotony of enthusiasm. At Christ Church a num- ber of larrikins (hoodlums) shouted: "Who won the War?" at the gobs. A fight might have ensued, but a shore patrol happened along and arrested a number of their brother gobs. Shore leave at Port Lyttelton was cancelled for a day, but the New Zealand press disowned the larrikins and festivities were soon resumed...